30min | Western, TV Series | Episode aired 25 October 1958
Dr. Baxter attempts to effect a truce between residents of Rising Springs and their Apache neighbors.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Robert Creighton Williams
Stars: Rex Allen, Herb Butterfield, Anthony George
Dr. Baxter attempts to effect a truce between residents of Rising Springs and their Apache neighbors.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Robert Creighton Williams
Stars: Rex Allen, Herb Butterfield, Anthony George
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00:00The Southwest, at the turn of the century, was all too often the story of valor and violence,
00:08seen through a hot haze of dust and gun smoke.
00:11But there was also another story, the story of a man whose deeds have largely gone unsung,
00:17though nonetheless heroic, a man who rode quietly in the vanguard of advancing civilization.
00:24Jack Salen stars as the frontier doctor.
00:38This is an Apache.
00:40This is a settler, and this, this is the land.
00:47The land coveted by two widely divergent cultures, the Apaches and the white man.
00:53Two peoples so far apart that neither believes they can exist in the presence of the other.
00:59And this is the result.
01:08And here's another result, just one of far, far too many for a lone doctor to handle.
01:19Hello, Doc. You look exhausted.
01:22I am.
01:24What are you going to do about this situation?
01:26The Apache trouble? I don't know. I just don't know.
01:30I suppose I'll end up by calling for troops again.
01:33All right, the troops stay a while and go back, then what?
01:36I know, I know, the same thing all over again.
01:40About like me prescribing a pill for a broken arm, isn't it?
01:43Look, Doc, you got no call to come busting in here and blaming me.
01:47Listen, you got some new notion I ain't tried yet.
01:50Ever think of a truce, an armistice, peace?
01:54Peace? With them savages?
01:58You better stick to pushing pills than leave me to what you got in mind.
02:07Well, it seems to me that the Apache hurts just as bad when he's hurt and dies just as dead when he's dead.
02:14It also seems to me that Chief Cayeta may have himself a little problem just the same as yours, Mayor.
02:20I'm falling in your dust, Doc, but I don't see so good.
02:24I don't see how I can approach Chief Cayeta with any peace talk.
02:28Before I had two words out, my scalp would be dripping blood in the moonlight.
02:34Let's see if we can't figure a way to keep you and your scalp in the same general location.
02:39For example, do you know a young Apache named Joe Fleetfoot?
02:43I've heard of him. He the one who went to Carlisle, got himself educated?
02:47That's right. He's going to marry the Chief's daughter, and the Chief likes him.
02:51Now, if I could have a little chat with Joe, and Joe talked it over with the Chief,
02:55would you be willing to meet the Chief and talk peace in some safe, neutral place?
03:01Maybe, Doc. Maybe I would.
03:04Only make that place awful neutral and awful safe.
03:08I know my hair's falling out, but I don't want to lose it all at once.
03:13I'll be back.
03:25I sent a message to Joe Fleetfoot asking him to meet me here.
03:28The manner of speaking, Joe had been my first patient long before I was a doctor.
03:33Back when we were kids and our early teens, I'd accidentally found him with his foot caught in a bear trap.
03:38When he saw me coming, a white boy, he took it for granted I was going to kill him.
03:43When instead I pried open the trap and banished his leg, he became my friend for life.
03:49Hello, Bill. You want to see me?
04:04Good to see you, Joe. It's been a long time, Bill.
04:07Joe, I want to talk to you about something. I suppose you know what it is.
04:13Sure. But I don't see how it would do any good, Bill.
04:17Our peoples hate one another. You and I both know that.
04:21I don't see what can stop a war to the finish.
04:23The finish is right, Joe. They're going to send for the troops, and this time it'll be a massacre.
04:28The end of the whole Apache nation.
04:34And there's no answer. A truce is an answer, for as long as it lasts.
04:40It's a truce right now, before anything else happens.
04:44Who would you get to talk, Peace?
04:46I've already talked to Mayor Fletcher, and he's willing.
04:49If you could talk to Chief Kaida, he'd listen to you, wouldn't he, Joe?
04:57I'll talk to him. And I'll talk hard and long and strong.
05:02I know you will, Joe.
05:23Joe must have talked very hard and long and strong,
05:26because the next day I escorted Mayor Fletcher and Joe brought Chief Kaida to a neutral spot.
05:31The two leaders met and talked for the first time.
05:34All right, Chief. And if I do my best to sit on the hotheads and troublemakers in town,
05:39and we've got plenty of them, you'll agree to stamp on your hatchet-happy young braves?
05:45If this peace is broken, it will not be by an Apache. I have spoken.
05:51And so we had peace. It was shaky and uncertain, to be sure.
05:57Still, it was a lot better than none at all. But could it be made to last?
06:20Take a look, Frank. Take a good look. Indians walking around town like they owned it.
06:26That's what I'm going to see the sheriff about. An Apache. A dirty, thieving crook.
06:31Yeah? Well, the sheriff ain't here right now, so I'm the deputy in charge. Make your complaint to me.
06:37Do you know a young Indian named Runnin' Bear?
06:40Yeah, when I see him. What's he done?
06:43Swiped a pair of my boots. They was all muddy and dirty, and I left them out on the porch. New ones.
06:49Runnin' Bear, yeah. He's a badden just like the rest of his tribe.
06:54Did you see him take your boots?
06:56No, I didn't rightly see him. But he was hanging around just before they disappeared. And you know Apaches.
07:04Hanging around, huh? Yeah, there's too many of them hanging around.
07:10I better go out and pick them up before the mayor puts in his two cents' worth.
07:14You'd better wait for the sheriff.
07:16Sheriff? Ha! They didn't make me a deputy for nothing.
07:24Get back here!
07:31Get her, sheek!
07:54Hello, Chief. Runnin' Bear around?
08:02The question must have a reason.
08:04Sure. He stole a pair of boots. I'm arresting him. I'm taking him in.
08:10Runnin' Bear was seen stealing?
08:12No. I got no eyewitnesses. But I'm taking him in on suspicion.
08:17The Apache way, huh?
08:19I got no eyewitnesses. But I'm taking him in on suspicion.
08:23The Apache way is not the same. No man is a thief unless observed while stealing.
08:30Chief, you know what this says? This says I'm the law. And Runnin' Bear goes back with me.
08:36The white man's law is for the white man. The Apache way is for the Apache.
08:42You may go back alone. In peace.
08:45I want Runnin' Bear and I want him here now.
08:49I want Runnin' Bear and I want him here now.
09:19No! No! Go! Go now!
09:50Joe, what's the trouble?
09:52Morningstar's been hurt. And the bleeding won't stop.
09:54Is your medicine man with her?
09:56Caesars and eagles can do nothing. Will you come, Bill?
09:59Wait till I get my bag.
10:06Bill, it may be dangerous for you. Morningstar was hurt by a white man.
10:20You bring him here?
10:23Among his people, he is a medicine man. It may be that his medicine will help Morningstar.
10:30This man is white. And you trust him?
10:35He has my trust.
10:37He has my trust.
10:39He has my trust.
10:41He has my trust.
10:43He has my trust.
10:45And you trust him?
10:47He has my trust.
10:50You give trust to all whites. You want peace with them.
10:54White man comes today to this village. Comes in safety.
10:58And now...
11:04You are our medicine man, Caesars and eagle.
11:06You are our wise man.
11:08Do you have the medicine to make Morningstar well?
11:11Do you have the wisdom to make her well?
11:13Can it be that our medicine man has more hatred than wisdom?
11:16Can it be that he will let Morningstar die rather than have a white man examine her?
11:28You may try your medicine.
11:44Morningstar
11:55Look! The bleeding stops!
12:01The blood is dark. It comes in pulse beats.
12:03That means it's an artery, not a vein.
12:06I don't believe the artery is cut in two, just pierced.
12:10I think I can sew it back together.
12:14No, no! It's bleeding again!
12:18Trouble with the tourniquet. When you stop the blood circulation, it endangers the lower arm.
12:22It has to be released periodically.
12:26Hold that right like that.
12:29Can you operate here?
12:30Not here.
12:32I have to hold that wound clamped open so I can work on the artery.
12:35That means getting her back to my office and getting her there fast.
12:39No. Morningstar stay here.
12:42My daughter would find death in the white man's village.
12:45Chief, that's the only way.
12:46I have spoken.
12:56See if you can get rid of him.
12:59Go up, please.
13:08Joe, she's going to die if we don't get her to town.
13:13Are you willing to help?
13:16Anything.
13:20I'll take the chief.
13:28Oh!
13:58Come on.
14:11Ha-ha!
14:13Get her! Get her!
14:23Look at her!
14:28Get her!
14:37Get her!
14:46You've got no call to talk like that.
14:48You're still alive and still jabbering out your hate.
14:51Me and Chief Cahito made ourselves an armistice.
14:54And I aim to preserve it.
14:56And there ain't any of you boys...
15:03It's Doc.
15:05Looks like he's got some Indians with him.
15:26All right.
15:47Tighten up on that tourniquet.
15:50Now loosen up on it a little.
16:04She's lost an awful lot of blood.
16:19Ah!
16:37The operation was a success.
16:39The patient died.
16:42But Bill, I thought you said...
16:44I didn't mean it literally, Joe.
16:46She's... She's lost so much blood.
16:49She's...
16:51She's sinking fast.
16:54There's just one thing.
16:56It's brand new in the medical journals.
16:58So far it's only theory.
17:00It's a method of replacing blood called transfusion.
17:05It just might...
17:08Might work.
17:10Come over here with me, Joe.
17:12Wait a minute. Bring a piece of cotton with some of her fresh blood on it.
17:15Aye.
17:22Roll your sleeve up.
17:46Come on.
18:11It's no use, Joe.
18:13Your blood don't match.
18:36I'll be all right.
18:43Matt!
18:53Matt, you idiot! You want to start a war!
19:02I won't talk.
19:13White Chief, all my warriors in big circle around your village.
19:17And I thought you wanted peace.
19:21I want peace.
19:23Your medicine man stole my daughter.
19:25My medicine man?
19:27Oh, you mean Bill Baxter, but...
19:29But I don't understand.
19:31Kaita give you till sun overhead
19:35to bring back my daughter.
19:37If she is with death, it is war.
19:40I have spoken.
19:59Amos, the whole town's surrounded.
20:01They'll massacre us.
20:03Yeah, I know, I know.
20:05Remember the doc just driving by in his buggy?
20:07Yeah, well, what about him?
20:09He had the Chief's daughter with him, that's who he had.
20:11If the Chief doesn't get him back...
20:13Well, you heard what he said.
20:15Me, I'm heading for the doc's house to find out what's what.
20:18Hank, you and Jeff scurry around town.
20:20I want every man able to walk to get his gun and get it loaded.
20:24The rest of you come with us.
20:30Now, listen, Joe.
20:32But we're going to try something that's never been done before as far as I know.
20:35It's our only chance, and it's her only chance.
20:38You still have my trust, Bill.
20:40Thanks, I hope it's deserved.
20:43Now, listen, you'll have to do just exactly as I say, do you understand?
20:47Get her on the couch right now.
20:58That's it, Joe. You got the vein.
21:05See any swelling under the skin?
21:08No.
21:09Good, that means the blood's flowing.
21:24We know you're in there, Doc.
21:26Come on, open up. We're taking that injured girl out of there.
21:31Stall him, Joe. Tell him I need just 15 minutes, no more.
21:34Open up, Doc, before I break the door down.
21:38Match, you got no call to destroy property without giving the docket.
21:42Hello, Joe.
21:43We got to take the chief's daughter back to him.
21:45It's that or war.
21:47You wait 15 minutes, not longer.
21:50I ain't giving you 15 seconds.
21:52We got to take that girl back before the whole town's wiped out.
21:54Now, out of my way, Injun.
21:56No, you don't.
21:58Say, whose side are you on, Amos?
22:00All right, come on, try to get in the windows.
22:02Come on, let's break this door down.
22:05There's a gun in the medicine cabinet. Get it for me.
22:22Open up, Doc. You got no right to risk a whole town for one Indian.
22:25Matt, give me a minute, just one minute.
22:29Hurry up, Doc.
22:30Open up or I'll break the door down.
22:35Open up.
22:42They barricaded themselves in the operating room.
22:44He tried to shoot me through the door.
22:47Doc, there's no use risking a whole town for one Indian.
22:50Come on out.
22:53What do we do, Amos?
22:54Maybe some of the boys can get in the back door.
23:05Hello, Joe.
23:07Bill.
23:09Look.
23:13Bill.
23:15We made it, Joe. We all made it.
23:17Now, if we can get her back to her dad in time.
23:29Get out of the way.
23:30Get out of the way.
23:32Doc, we only got two minutes left before they're going to attack.
24:00Go, go, go.
24:03Go, go, go.
24:25Here, Joe. Take her home.
24:28Bill, you come to the wedding.
24:31You bet I will.
24:58Doc, I got to hand it to you.
25:00When you know you're right, you don't listen to hotheads and old coots like me.
25:04Congratulations.
25:21Okay, Doc.
25:22That one's on the house.
25:24That one's on the house.
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